Summary

Northumbrian Naturalist 2017

This volume includes:

  • Breeding season Water Rail survey at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve by James Littlewood (pp. 5 – 9)
  • New flatworm species recorded on Tunstall Hills, Sunderland by Barry Robinson (pp. 10 – 11)
  • John Emmerson Robson (1833-1907) A naturalist from Hartlepool – his magazines and his friends by R.A. Baker and D.S. Gill (pp. 12 – 23)
  • An historical list of taxidermists of Berwickshire, Durham and Northumberland by Les Jessop (pp. 24 – 48)
  • Kathleen Bever Blackburn: a distinguished British botanist by Alan L. Hart (pp. 49 – 67)
  • Molluscs, medals, and monsters: letters between Albany Hancock and Thomas Henry Huxley by Wallace Arthur (pp. 68 – 79)

 

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